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Musk’s Twitter/X has recently lost a lot of big advertisers after some seeming endorsements that Musk made on some anti-Semitic posts.

Do I think Musk is anti-Semitic? No. I just think he is a cuck, frankly.

Like, he will say one thing if the wind is blowing that direction, and then say the other thing if the wind starts to blow otherwise.

He cares what Xi Jinping thinks which is pretty consistent, and cares about the political tide in the US which blows back and forth. His recent anti-Semitic confirmations were likely just an instance of him leaning too quickly in one way, and being caught out on it. He tried to be vague but it didn’t work. And then he backpedaled.

Meanwhile, Musk also actively caters to leaders of countries that request (and receive) the most content takedown requests on Twitter/X, like Modi and Erdogan, as long as they are potential markets for SpaceX and Tesla. Under the leadership of Musk, Twitter/X statistically agrees to government takedown requests for content at a much higher rate than the company previously did. It’s just mostly outside of the US now, so all of our domestic discourse is about freedom.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/katherinehamilton/2023/04/27/twitter-has-complied-with-almost-every-government-request-for-censorship-since-musk-took-over-report-finds/

Musk previously catered culturally more to woke folks, like in 2021 when he said Tesla would resume accepting bitcoin payments only when bitcoin was over 50% “clean”. He needed those ESG vibes back then. But now that the woke trend turned into a based trend, he shifted to ride more on that one instead. He posts way less about the environment and way more about socio-cultural issues now.

Musk is likely not dumb/small enough to be personally against any particular ethnicity or religion of people as a group. He clearly thinks bigger and more pragmatically than that.

Instead, he is just trying to stick his finger in the air, measure the winds, and lean in any momentum direction culturally.

Meanwhile the large corporate advertisers like Apple and Disney advertisers who dropped Twitter/X for advertising are also doing similar. They are pulling back in the heat of the moment to gauge public perception, and then will move forward slowly based on polls and research. It’s the same vibe as when they put up rainbow flags on their domestic Twitter/X accounts but then of course don’t dare do the same for their Middle East accounts. Region by region polling and brand management. Never genuine, always calculated.

Anyway, good morning.

Save The West 2y ago

I'd say he is actually navigating - not cucking. The only choices for some countries is to either not have X allowed at all, or provide the people there with a handicapped X but which at least provides some openness, plus ability to network and explore.

Staying on Xi's good side should be on every leaders priority list, too. Doesn't mean you do his bidding, or even have to consider his wishes much, but you are a blind fool to play the card of being a moral superior with the worlds probably second most important human. And Musks business in China is something a whole lot of people, not just him, depends on. As long as he doesn't have to make egregious sacrifices against his conscience, being friendly only serves both.

That's the difference between politics - and business. 😉

Around the anti-semitic tired brawls, there's just not a good side or correct decision to be had in that whole mess. Most people would be well recommended to say as little as possible about the horrors going on there right now. When we can honestly say we've gotten real information and evidence, it's time to judge. Musk did take the side of what has to be considered the diplomatically viable one at the current time.

I've never pegged him as not genuine. At all. And that's probably almost unique at that level of fame and influence, I can't say I can think of a single other widely famed person I don't find incredibly false. I also have not, so far - yet, been given a reason by him to change that impression. He hasn't been caught doing anything that conflicts with what he openly intended, afaik.

Genuine is not opposite of calculated.

If you are not calculated at that level of industry, you will be short lived, and so will your companies. At the same time, by calculating correctly you also have the freedom of being actually open and genuine, which is vital to gather and keep real talents, and a few of the genuises around. Which you need in businesses like sending the human race to other planets.

He wouldn't have gotten halfway to the current amazing rockets or the cybercar, if he were dishonest or untrustworthy - or whose word could not be counted on.

You're selling him short. And I suspect you are confusing the impression Aspergers gives, and how cold and calculated sociopaths vibe. It's insanely opposite each other, but kinda looks/feels the same to the unitiated/experienced. 😉

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